Thrad, the leading advertising platform for AI conversations, today (5th November, 2026) announced the launch of Sponsored Intelligence Academy, a complimentary educational programme designed to help agencies, marketers, and media traders navigate conversational advertising. The first five modules of the [...]

GumGum, The Mindset Company™, today (5th November, 2026) announced a dedicated global Agency Partnerships team to help agencies transform the business of advertising through mindset and sports sponsorship intelligence. This team will strengthen strategic relationships with holding companies and independent [...]

Charlotte McEleny chats to Naveen Chacko Mathews of Havas MENA about client relationships, AI, and planning across the region…

In today’s digest: Publicis reaches settlement with the FTC over its planned LiveRamp acquisition, a New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25bn (£19bn) in penalties over misleading users on privacy, and retail media firm Kevel raises $52m (£19bn) and [...]

Today (14th October, 2026), Adelaide announced the AU Ecosystem for Outcome Partners (AEOP), a new programme recognising survey and outcome partners whose data can be matched directly to AU, Adelaide’s omnichannel media quality metric. By setting a common standard for [...]

Columnist Alex Lamaro-McCrindle, Digital Lead, Miroma Founders Network, looks at the framing of AI, and whether we view it through a lens of threat, or opportunity… I've recently developed a bit of an addiction. I'm starting to understand how people get [...]

Columnist Jess Treasure of Bountiful Cow asks if we’ve misunderstood how attention habits have really shifted?

In today’s Digest, we cover Infillion acquiring Foursquare in a location data deal, McCann merging FP7 and MullenLowe in MENA, and OpenAI rolling out a youth safety plan for Australia.

Following on from her recent look into the podcast market in MENA, Charlotte McEleny chats to Rasha Hamzeh about the AI future of audio…

Screencore, a global programmatic advertising technology company, today (1st September, 2026) announced the expansion of its premium connected TV (CTV) supply access in the US, strengthening its offering for agencies and media buyers as the 2026 midterm election cycle drives [...]